Addendum

Configuring Fast Boot and LACP Fast Switchover
To configure the optimized booting time functionality, and quicker aggregation and convergence of
member ports of a port- channel bundle, perform the following steps. This procedure is supported on
the S6000 platform.
1. Enable the system to be restarted during the next reboot of the device with optimized booting-time
functionality enabled. When you restart the device in fast boot mode, traffic disruption is reduced
significantly and the system operations to service the data traffic are restored in a seamless way.
CONFIGURATION mode
Dell(conf)#reload-type fastboot
2. Cause the physical ports to be aggregated faster by configuring this capability in a port-channel on
both the nodes that are members of a port-channel. You can configure the optimal switchover
functionality for LACP even if you do not enable the fast boot mode on the system. This command
applies to dynamic port-channel interfaces only. When applied on a static port-channel, this
command has no effect. If you configure the optimized booting-time capability and perform a reload
of the system, the LACP application sends PDUs across all the active LACP links immediately.
INTERFACE (conf-if-po-number) mode
Dell(conf-if-po-number)#lacp fast-switchover
reload-type fastboot
Restart the system with optimized booting-time functionality enabled. When you restart the device in fast
boot mode, traffic disruption is reduced significantly and the system operations to service the data traffic
are restored in a seamless way. This command is supported on the S6000 platform.
S6000
Syntax
reload-type fastboot
Parameters
fastboot Enable the system to restart the next time with the optimized
booting-time capability
Defaults By default, the device reloads in Jumpstart or BMP mode.
Command
Modes
GLOBAL CONFIGURATION
Command
History
Version 9.3.0.0 Added support for the fastboot parameter for S6000
platform.
Usage
Information
You can configure an optimization technique to reduce the booting time of an
S6000 Switch. This mechanism is also called fast boot. With the reduced time that
is taken to reboot the switch, upon a manually-initiated reload or an expected
restart of the device, the disruption in traffic that is serviced by the switch is
minimized. Traffic outage is lowered considerably (reduced to approximately 25
seconds in certain network deployments) when you enable this optimization
method for booting of the device. By reducing the duration of traffic loss,
subscriber sessions are processed and preserved in an effective and seamless way.
Flex Hash and Optimized Boot-Up
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